ornitholestid
ornitholestid noun: any member of the family †Ornitholestidae, now superseded by family †Compsognathidae.
Noun
ornitholestid (plural ornitholestids)
- Any member of the family †Ornitholestidae, now superseded by family †Compsognathidae.
- E. H. Colbert (pers. commun. to Harshbarger, 1957) suggested that Segisaurus looks very much like an ornitholestid; Ornitholestes is found in the Morrison Formation (Jurassic).1975, Dudley W. Bolyard, Deep drilling frontiers of the central Rocky Mountains, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, →OCLC, page 114
- In proportions, and especially in their uncompressed central metatarsal, Avisaurus retains the conservative condition seen in such basal theopods as Coelophysis and Ceratosaurus (Fig. 2), and thus retains a basal condition compared to derived theropods and Archaeopteryx, which have proximally...1985, MK Brett-Surman, “A new family of bird-like dinosaurs linking Laurasia and Gondwanaland”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 5, number 2, page 133
Forms of ornitholestid
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Questions about ornitholestid
- What does ornitholestid mean?
- Ornitholestid means any member of the family †Ornitholestidae, now superseded by family †Compsognathidae.
- What part of speech is ornitholestid?
- Ornitholestid is a noun.
- What is the plural of ornitholestid?
- The plural of ornitholestid is ornitholestids.
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